Low End Candy’s Premix VST3 and AU plug-in and standalone app reads the key (with Camelot code) and BPM of a track, saves 24-bit WAV and 320kbps MP3 copies, and can split stems on a host DAW. Premix takes a track a producer has the rights to use and puts it into a DAW session, in key and on the grid.
Available for Mac and Windows, Premix is built for music a producer has the right to use. For a song already released, Premix can find the official release so the producer can confirm it is the right version and purchase it.
Premix reads the key, with its Camelot code and relative key, and the BPM, with a one-click switch between half and double time, then saves a 24-bit WAV and a 320kbps MP3, named Artist , Title [Key BPM] with the key and BPM written into the MP3’s tags, into a library of every track it has prepared.
In Ableton Live, the track lands on its own track at Bar 1, warped to the grid, and the set follows its tempo and key. In Logic Pro, FL Studio, Bitwig, Reaper, Cubase, Studio One and other hosts, Premix makes a copy at the project’s tempo, cut to start on the song’s first downbeat, ready to drag to Bar 1. The copy follows the track’s own beat map, so a band recorded without a click still comes out straight.
A Project Key setting transposes the copies into the producer’s key the nearest way (drums are never transposed), and a tempo change is followed in about half a second.
Switching on Split into stems delivers Vocals, Drums, Bass and Other on colour-coded tracks, lined up under the song at Bar 1. The split runs free on the producer’s Mac, taking about 20s for a three-and-a-half-minute song on an M1 Pro (Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or newer), or through the producer’s own LALAL.ai account on Windows and Intel Macs.
‘Rights come first in Premix,’ Low End Candy states. ‘It is made for the producer’s own productions, tracks they bought, remix-contest parts and other licensed or cleared material. A Buy Full Quality button shows where to buy any track: lossless on Qobuz, or from the iTunes Store, Beatport or Bandcamp. Anything released, performed or sold from someone else’s song needs permission from its rights holders, like any sample, and the Premix terms spell that out.
Premix runs as a VST3 and AU plug-in plus a standalone app on macOS, and as a VST3 plugin plus app on Windows (tested in Reaper on Windows 11). One licence key covers both platforms and is checked offline, with no iLok. There is no AAX version; Pro Tools users run the Premix app beside it and drag the files in.
See also:
Low End Candy Preverb
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